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Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Las Vegas, 1970s, a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes, the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history-whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clichés about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair's breadth of death more than once, Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino. In ‘Hit Me!”,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Born in Cuba, Jose Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle-hardened in Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba's floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many others, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America's...
4) The cooler
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Bernie is extremely unlucky at gambling and he owes the Shangri-La casino's mob boss Shelly Kaplow over $100,000. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler". He gambles next to high rollers and gives them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, but when Bernie has almost paid off his debt, he meets cocktail waitress, Natalie. The two start to fall in love and Bernie's luck begins to change. Unfortunately,...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Chronicles the untold history of Las Vegas, a story that may have never existed without the foresight and sponsorship of America's organized crime syndicate. Las Vegas is the country's greatest resort city and the gambling capital of the world. Home of the famous, and infamous Strip. The right price will get every kind of entertainment and is available for everyone and anyone at any time.
Publisher
Univeral Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Based on true cases from the files of the Nevada State Police, each episode finds Blake and his fellow officers fighting crime in the Silver State. Sheriff Andy Anderson and Sheriff Elder join Cameron in their crusade to keep peace and justice in the new old west, in stories of ranchers, miners, convicts and murder!
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